Toy telephone savings bank



comprehends the provision of a childs sav-- Patented Feb. 8, 1927.

. UNITED STATES PATENT oFFi-cn.

LoUIs MARX, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TY TELEPHONE SAVINGS BANK.

Application filed October 22, 1923. Serial No. 670,140.

This invention relates to a toy; and has special reference to theprovision of a childs savings bank and toy telephone.

A. prime object of the present invention slates to the provision of atoy telephone constructed so that the depositing of a. coinA therein bya. child will actuate a sounding device after the manner of telephonesof the pay station type.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as mayhereinafter appear, my invention consists in the elements and theirrelation one to the other, as hereinafter particularly described andsought to be defined in the claims; reference being had to theaccompanying drawings which show the preferred embodiment of myinvention, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the toy tele.

ings, and having particular reference to Figs. 1 to 3 thereof, thesavings bank of my invention comprises a receptacle or frame generallydesignated as F shaped to .simulate a telephone box of the pay stationtype, the said frame orlr'eceptacle being constructed so as to form adepository for coins. The frame F comprises a lower frame portion fprovided with Walls dening a coin receiving receptacle and an upperportion f2 having walls constructed to define a coin d rop or. chute,the walls of the receptacle portion f including the rear and front walls10 and 11,-a top Wall 12, the side or end walls 13 and 14, and a` bottomwall 15, and the walls of the coin chute portion f2 including anextension of the rear wall 10, a front Wall 16 and end walls 17 and 18,the front and rear walls 1G and 10 being closely spaced to provide anarrow coin Chute.

In the preferred construction the frame is fashioned out of sheet metalwith the walls 10, 11, 13 and 14 'produced by bending the sheet materialinto the ldesired box contiguration, and the walls 12,16,17 and 18produced by fashioning another piece of sheet material,the bottom wall15 being preferably made Separate so as to be removably attachable tothe receptacle portion f', as will clearly appear from a considerationof Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. 'lhe rear wall 10 is preferably alsoprovided with two apertured ear members 19 and 20 which may either beformed integrally with the rear Wall 10, or may be attached thereto,said apertured ear members comprising means for suspending or hangingthe toy telephone to a support.

Mounted within the receptacle portion f and secured to the rear Wall 10thereof by means of the securing elements 21, I provide a soundingelement such as a bell 22 .of any approved type to which is connected aforked member 23 extending to the outside of the telephone box, whichmember is made to simulate a telephone hook, and which may be operatedby the child to sound the bell 22. The forked member 23 removablysupports the element 24 which is made to simulate a telephone receiver,the said receiver element 24 being also provided with the cord 25, theopposite ends of which are knotted as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of thedrawings, and secured respectively to the front wall 11 of the telephonebox and the receiver element 24. For producing the simulatedtransniouth-piece element 26 which may be made out of sheet metal, andwhich is preferably 1ecured to the front Walll of the telephone The toytelephone box of my invention is preferably so construct/ed that uponthe depositing of a coin by the child the sounding device 22 or itsequivalent will be actuated in simulation of the manner of4 using thepay station type of telephone. To this end the front Wall 16 of thetelephone box is provided preferably j with av plurality of openingsdefining coin slots 27 of different sizes for receiving coins ofdiiferent denomivmitter, lthere is provided the cup-shaped or n ynations such as 5, and 25-eent pieces, and for actuating the soundingelement 22 upon the depositing of a coin in any of these slots, Iprovide a hammer 28 which may be conveniently pivotally mounted on thefront and rea-r walls 11 and 10 of the telephone box, as clearly shownin Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, the said hammer being shaped in theform of a lever provided with the hammer arm 29 and an actuating arm 30,the latter arranged to intercept so as to be struck by a deposited coinfor impelling the hammer arm 29 into sounding engagement with the bell22. In the .form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 of the drawings, for cheapness'defiecting all coins deposited so as to strike the actuating arm 30, aswill be obvious.

Referring now to Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings, I show a modificationdesigned to produce a different tone or sound for the depositing ofcoins of different sizes or de nominations.

In this modification the sounding element 22 may be provided so as to beactuated by up and down movement of A the receiver hook elements 23',and in addition to this sounding element I provide the bells 32, 33 and34 of diffe-rent size and tones carried by the guide plates 35, 36 and37 which may be secured in any desired manner to the telephone box as onthe rear wall 10 thereof, the said guides separating the space betweenthe front and rear walls of the upper portion of the telephone frameinto three compartments, one for each of the slots 27. For the purposeof assuring the sounding of the bell when a coin is dropped into theslot and chute, I may provide the deiecting. elements 38, one for each-of the coin compartments, suitably stamped or struck up from the rearwall 10.

While I have shown and described my invention in the preferred form, itwill be obvious that many changes and modifications may be made in thestructure disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention,defined Ain the following claims.

I claim:

1. A toy telephone savings bank comprising a frame including a lowerportion having walls defining a childs savings depository and an upperportion constituting a coin chute communicating with the depository, thesaid upper frame portion beingl provided with a coin slot, a soundingelement, elements simulating a, transmitter mouthpiece and a receivercarried by the fra-meportions, and means whereby the depositing of acoin in said slot will operate the sounding element.

2. A toy telephone savings bank comprising a frame including a lowerportion havncoin chute communicating with ther depository, the saidupper frame portion being provided with a coin slot., an'elementsimulating a tiansn'iitter mouth-piece fixed on said upper frameportion, and an element simulating a receiver removably carried by saidlower frame portion.`

`3. A toy telephone savings bank comprisin g a frame including a lowerportion having walls defining a childs 'savings depositoi'y and an upperportion constituting a coin chute communicating with the depository, thesaid upper frame portion being provided with a coin slot, a soundingelement in the lsaid depository, an element simulating a transmittermouth-piece fixed on said upper frame portion, an element simulating areceiver removably carried by said lower frame portion, and meanswhereby the depositing of a coin in said vslot will operate the soundingelement.

4. A toy telephone savings bank comprising a frame made of sheet metaland including a bottom portion having walls definingr a cliilds savingsdepository or receptacle and an upper portion having closely spacedfront and rear Walls defining a coin chute, the said front wall beingprovided with a plurality of slots for receiving coins of differentdenominations, an element simulating a transmitteimouthpiece attached tosaid front wall, an element simulating a receiver detachably supportedby the receptacle portion of the frame, a bell within the receptacle,and a hammer mounted in the receptacle and arranged to be actuated bythe depositing of a coin in the receptacle for striking the bell.

5. A toy telephone savings 'bank comprising a frame made of sheet metaland including a bottom portion having walls delining a childs savingsdepository or receptacle and an upper portion having closelyY spacedfront and rear walls defining acoin chute, the said front wall beingprovided with a plurality of slots for receiving coins of differentdenominations, an element simulating a transmitter mouth-piece attachedto said front wall, an element simulating a receiver detachablysupported vby the receptacle portion of the frame, a bell within thereceptacle, a hammer pivotally mounted on the receptacle, and guidemeans in the upper portion of the frame for guiding a coin deposited inany of said slots into position for actuating the hammer to strike thebell.

G; A toy telephone savings bank comprising a` frame made of sheet metaland including a bottom portion haiing walls defining a childs savingsdepository or receptacle 'and an upper portion having closely spacedfront and rear walls defining a coin chute, the said front wall beingprovided with a plurality of coin slots, a bell within the saidreceptacle,

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a forked. member `connected to actuate the arranged to be actuated by acoin deposited bell and projecting through the receptacle, in any ofsaid slots for striking said bell. an element simulatindg a transmittermouth- Signed at New York city, in the county of 10 piece attached tosai front wall, an element New York and State of New York, this 18th 5simulating a receiver detachabl supportable day of October A. D. 1923.

by the said forked member, an a lever ham- I mer pivotally mounted inthe receptacle and LOUIS MARX.

